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Automated BIM360 Docs On Premises Backup Using CollaborationCache and Dynamo

I have developed a working BIM360 to on-premises backup mechanism. There were a few different ways to go…

I initially considered:

Hacking Windows Explorer to touch the files in the BIM 360 node and try and trigger the BIM360 Docs download and copy to local PC or network location

Developing a Forge app that essentially pulls the desired models out of the BIM 360 cloud to desired location?

In the end, I decided to use the Revit API (Dynamo and Python), along with VirtualBuiltApp, to essentially reverse engineer a folder structure from the local CollaborationCache folder. These ideas are hinted at here.